Proclus prop 171 · creuzer page 254

Πᾶς νοῦς ἀμέριστός ἐστιν οὐσία. εἰ γὰρ ἀμεγέθης καὶ ἀσώματος καὶ ἀκίνητος, ἀμέριστόν ἐστι. πᾶν γὰρ τὸ ὁπωσοῦν μεριστόν, ἢ κατὰ μέγεθος, ἢ κατὰ πλῆθος, ἢ κατὰ τὰς ἐνεργείας ἐστὶ μεριστὸν ἐν χρόνῳ φερομένας· ὁ δὲ νοῦς κατὰ πάντα αἰώνιος, καὶ ἐπέκεινα σωμάτων, καὶ ἥνωται τὸ ἐν αὐτῷ πλῆθος. Ἀμέριστος ἄρα ἐστίν. Ὅτι μὲν οὖν ἀσώματος ὁ νοῦς, ἡ πρὸς ἑαυτὸν ἐπιστροφὴ δηλοῖ. τῶν γὰρ σωμάτων οὐδὲν πρὸς ἑαυτὸ ἐπιστρέφεται. Ὅτι δὲ αἰώνιος ἡ τῆς ἐνεργείας ταυτότης πρὸς τὴν οὐσίαν· οὕτω γὰρ δέδεικται πρότερον. Ὅτι δὲ ἥνωται τὸ πλῆθος, ἡ πρὸς τὰς ἑνάδας τὰς θείας τοῦ νοεροῦ πλήθους συνέχεια. Αἱ μὲν γάρ εἰσι πρῶτον πλῆθος· οἱ δὲ νόες μετ᾽ ἐκείνας.

Every intellect is an undivided essence. For if it is without magnitude, and incorporeal, and unmoved, it is undivided. For everything that is divided in any way at all is divided either according to magnitude, or according to multiplicity, or according to its activities as these are borne along in time; but intellect is in every respect eternal, and beyond bodies, and the manifold in it is unified. It is therefore undivided. That intellect is incorporeal is shown by its reversion upon itself, for no body reverts upon itself. That it is eternal is shown by the identity of its activity with its essence, for this has been shown earlier. That its manifold is unified is shown by the continuity of the intellectual manifold with the divine henads. For the henads are the first manifold, and the intellects come after them.

Source of LdC 6 (Bardenhewer: '§ 6 deckt sich mit § 171 des Lehrbuches'). Creuzer's note (6) records that the printed edition had a lacuna here which he filled from codex A — as at El. 88, so the supplement must not be presented as uncontested. Note (8) quotes THOMAS TAYLOR'S 1816 English directly ('or an account of energies, which are borne along with the flux of time'), which means Creuzer's apparatus is itself a witness to the Taylor reception and can be cited on that margin. Phase 3 translation notes. (a) Editorial supplement, do not read as uncontested text: Creuzer's note (6) reports the printed edition as reading 'καὶ ἀσώματον *** ἄν ὁπωσοῦν' and says he filled the gap from codex A. On the text as it now stands the supplement runs across the words rendered 'and unmoved, it is undivided. For everything that is divided in any way at all', and πᾶν itself ('everything') is Portus's conjecture for the edition's ἄν. Three editorial hands are therefore in that clause; the English translates it because Creuzer prints it, and the crux page must say whose it is. (b) πλῆθος is 'manifold' where it names a thing (the manifold in intellect, the first manifold) but 'multiplicity' in the phrase κατὰ πλῆθος, where it names a respect of division alongside magnitude — a departure from the wording used at El. 138, made for readability and logged in the Phase 3 report. (c) νοερός is 'intellectual' here and at El. 173.

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In the crux Liber de causis, proposition 6